The Role of Morphological Awareness in Reading Chinese Characters: The Moderating Effect of Morpheme Family Size

In this study, we examined the mechanism for the relationship between morphological awareness and Chinese character reading in a group of Hong Kong primary school children when they were in grade two (n = 176, mean age = 8.07) and grade three (n = 163, mean age = 9.02). The results showed that morphological awareness, morpheme family size and the interaction effect of the two were all significant predictors of character reading in concurrent and...